Litigation delays State Street Corner project

12:12 AM,
May 25, 2013

The future site of State Street Corner at Northwestern Avenue and State Street awaits demolition.

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The windows and doors of abandoned storefronts on a busy West Lafayette street corner are boarded up and ready for demolition.

But construction on the State Street Corner project, the multistory development set to go in on the corner of State Street and Northwestern Avenue near Purdue University, has been delayed because its developers, Chauncy Hill Partnership, are tied up in litigation, according to parties familiar with the project.

Local officials worked with the project's developers for months last year to come up with an acceptable design for the contentious five-story, ...